Betrayed while accomplices.

Dejon 2021-12-13 08:01:13

Everyone has two sides.
Manifested and latent.
You can't simply say which one is good, but sometimes, people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves.
As the saying goes, people can do everything when they are in a hurry, don’t they jump over the wall when they’re anxious.
But when people are not impulsive and have a clear mind, no one has thought about pushing the status quo into a fire pit, right?

Babara is such a person. Actually everyone is.
Like sheba. Help her not want her to be hurt.
Like sheba. Jealous that she never knows how to be lonely.

Accessory.
Knowing that Sheba had committed adultery with a fifteen-year-old child, she did not rush to expose her, but gently shielded her, helped her out, advised her, comforted her, and wished to hold her out of the fire pit.
Naturally sheba is grateful again and again. Treat her as a benefactor. Tell her everything, but didn't listen to her persuasion and decide with the boy.


Finally revealed.



Barbara's dependent kitten is dead. It's hard to be her going to sheba.
She didn't really want much, just wanted Sheba to be by her side, just like that.
But you know that things that are often easy are difficult to handle well. This is often the case.
Sheba is going to take part in the play of Ben, her doting son with a mental retardation. The whole family is waiting for sheba. Barbara stared at Sheba aggressively, reminding her "someone just died in my place". Sheba also reminded Barbara that "this is my own son's performance, I must go to".

Therefore, a drama of betrayal is quietly brewing...It is
said that people can't be forced, especially if they can't be forced by the wind, or the consequences are really horrible.

So betrayed.
The instructor who has a crush on Sheba happened to be looking for Barbara at this juncture. I want to find barbara to match him with sheba.
Originally angry, coupled with jealousy, barbara finally couldn't help it.
It implies that this teacher, Sheba has an improper relationship with a tenth grade boy.
Hesitate to speak and stop. But often the catastrophe begins with such a dispensable sentence.


Maybe it's because Sheba didn't stay with Barbara when she needed someone to accompany her.
Maybe it's because Barbara's loneliness can never be understood by Sheba.
Perhaps it was this poor old woman who suddenly realized that she might not know something in her entire life.
In short, we can't blame anyone for this ending.
We can understand anyone.


Anyone is going through such a stage.
"Betrayed while being an accomplice."
Barbara, while sheltering Sheba, thought about destroying her.
Sheba, having sex with her students behind her husband, but needs her husband's care at the last minute.

And Sheba's husband, with the sniper of the spotlights outside the door, said to Sheba who was about to leave home, "I didn't say I was so great, but I have been here" almost causing me to cry.
I think he can forgive Sheba and start the day again.
Sometimes betrayal is a kind of recklessness, just like Barbara to Sheba and Sheba to her husband.
Temporarily.
And sometimes an accomplice is also a kind of involuntary. A heart-to-heart love. Like Barbara to Sheba, knowing she did something wrong, she still has to carry it for her.
"I thought we were not just friends." Barbara said.

And at the end of the play, a young girl appeared next to Barbara.
What Barbara loves may be the reflection of herself in others.

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Notes on a Scandal quotes

  • [after her affair has become public knowledge, Sheba has moved out of her home and is staying with Barbara]

    Barbara Covett: [voiceover] This last month has been the most delicious time of my life. Of course we have had our ups and downs. The pressure is intense when two women share their lives. But, oh, but what marvellous intensity it is! Circumstances are not always ideal. The swinish press, the stringent bail terms, meetings with lawyers and so on. But all things considered, we're coping admirably. In fact, gold stars abundant. The cuckold permits her to see their children once a week. Thee are usually tears and fits of teenage tantrums, too. In time she'll recognise she's just not the mothering kind, and then Barbara will be there to comfort her. Nurse, beloved friend and wise counsel.

  • [first lines]

    Barbara Covett: [voiceover of Barbara writing in her diary] People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you.